Lottie Moon, missionary to China from 1873 to her death in 1912, is the most famous person in Southern Baptist history. Our largest offering, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions, is named for her. In time, her life came to be mythologized by Southern Baptists and her name invoked in order to raise […]

It usually gets under my skin when I see it. Someone writes about an issue of social injustice in America and instead of engaging the merits of the issue a pro-life Christian simply responds with the abortion-juke (the pro-life iteration of the omnipresent Jesus-juke). “Why are you so upset about this when millions of babies […]

The immigration debate in America has taken a nasty turn of late with Donald Trump’s entry into the GOP Presidential nominating process and his remarks about those coming here illegally from Mexico and other places not being the “best and brightest.” His words seem to be catching on as a nativist movement is growing with […]

I am doggedly committed to the idea of universal religious liberty not because it is American or self-serving but because it is biblical. As a pastor, I am obligated to follow the Word of God even when doing so puts me at odds with contemporary public opinion. When the day comes that I do not […]

History tends to follow pendulum swings. The church is not immune. As finite and sinful human beings we have a tendency to bounce from one extreme to another—dancing around the truth along the way. I’ve got a handful of pendulum swings that I’d like to address. Today I want to address one that I’ve termed […]

Tom served as missionary church planter for 21+ years with the Foreign/International Mission Board before becoming the Executive Director of Tarrant Baptist Association – Fort Worth, Texas. After retiring, he served as the Interim Executive Director of the Baptist Convention of Iowa. Each of the churches he helped start in Paraguay was an attempt to […]

“I’m in a real pickle, and I don’t relish it.” – Matthew I’ll go ahead and remove the suspense: Matthew died this weekend. He served as a pastor, bookshop curator, minister, chaplain, missionary, and friend. Matthew never set out to be anyone’s mentor, but he was mine. He came along when I most needed someone […]

On Immigration: From Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses to Trump’s Best and Brightest? -- 52 Comments
Alan Cross A post from Peter Leithart at First Things about all of this that you might find interesting. He speaks....
Alan Cross Dean, I feel your pain on doing this on the phone. It is really hard. I have to turn my phone to the side....
Dean Stewart “Immigrants” because of threading on phone I’m only getting four letters a line.....
Dean Stewart Alan, could you share if those studies are on legal imagerents only or if they include illegal as well?....
Alan Cross Thank you, John. I get fired up about this issue, but hopefully, we can discuss it reasonably. I have....